Editor’s Note: This is a reprise of “Summertime Blues“, which was originally posted on July 7, 2007.

Well, it’s time to raise a fuss
and it’s time to raise a holler
About diminishing returns
from the corporate dollar

I just heard from my boss
who governs me
If I don’t save the cash
he’s gonna fire me

Sometimes I wonder
What I’m gonna do
If there ain’t no cure
For the purchasing blues

My CFO he told me to
go beat on the supplier
That his margins must be high
while ours are under water

So I talked to the supplier
he said costs were elevated
He was losing all his money
at the rates we had created

Sometimes I wonder
What I’m gonna do
If there ain’t no cure
For the purchasing blues

So I found a consultant
told her about my problems
And she went and discovered that
the supplier was just stalling

Material costs were falling
and the exchange rate was fair
I had wasted all my time
just pulling out all my hair

Next time I have a problem
I’ll find me a solution
I’ll find a sourcing expert
and get my retribution

No more will I wonder
What I’m gonna do
I’ll find me a cure
For the purchasing blues

Most bloggers, when they lose it, go over the edge.

I, however, prefer to take a trip over the hedge.

So, without further adieu, I give you …

If I Was a ‘Coon (Hammy’s Song)

If I was a ‘coon I’d live over the ridge
and get fat eating stolen snacks from the fridge.

If I was a ‘coon I’d pay a whole lotta green
to watch a cooking program on a wide plasma screen.

If I was a ‘coon I’d send all the squirrels for food
to pilfer somebody’s pantry for vegetable stew.

If I was a ‘coon I’d disguise you like a pet
and make you swallow your pride until you fetched a tea set.

A squirrel can dream,
if only that could be me.

‘coons have all the fun.
‘coons think they’re number 1.
‘coons they rule the world,
but we all know it’s all about the squirrels, squirrels.

If I was a ‘coon I’d have to free all the pets
then get hauled off to jail in the dog catcher’s nets.

If I was a ‘coon, in the midst of hunger throes,
I’d be at the mercy of my sensitive nose.

Oh yeah!

‘coons have all the fun.
‘coons think they’re number 1.
‘coons they rule the world,
but we all know it’s all about the squirrels, squirrels.

Ahh, ahh.
Hey hey, hey hey, hey hey, hey hey.

If I was a ‘coon I’d be lazing around
coz it’s just too much work to do something profound
If I was a ‘coon I’d love Verne for his brains
but then when he used them I’d say he’s going insane.

A squirrel can dream,
if only that could be me.

‘coons have all the fun.
‘coons think they’re number 1.
‘coons they call the tune
to get the squirrels to wanna fetch their food.

‘coons have all the fun.
‘coons think they’re number 1.
‘coons they rule the world,
but we all know it’s all about the squirrels, squirrels.

‘coons have all the fun.
‘coons think they’re number 1.
‘coons they rule the world,
but we all know it’s all about the
squirrels, squirrels, squirrels, squirrels!

And, if you haven’t figured it out yet, it’s to the tune of
If I Was a Boy by Natascha Sohl.

I am the very model of a modern Global Sourceror
I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral
I know the tools of sourcing, and I quote the facts logistical
From New Orleans to Shanghai, in order categorical

I’m very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About optimization, I’m teeming with a lot o’ news
With many cheerful facts about the cost of the blue ocean routes

With many cheerful facts about the cost of the blue ocean routes
With many cheerful facts about the cost of the blue ocean routes
With many cheerful facts about the cost of the blue ocean routes

I’m very good at direct and indirect spend anlaysis
I know the HTS codes of products electronicalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and minderal
I am the very model of a modern global sourceror

In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
He is the very model of a modern global sourceror

I know our mythic history, Free Markets and Markets B2E
I answer hard acrostics, I’ve a pretty taste for oddities
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of the major analysts
In auctions I can floor peculiarities ridiculous

I can tell undoubted RFPs from RFQs from RFIs
I know the croaking chorus from the mouths of the vendor sales guys
Then I can hum a fugue of which I’ve heard the vendor’s pitch before
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense we abhor

And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense we abhor
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense we abhor
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense we abhor

Then I can write a shipping bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you ev’ry detail of Custom’s CBP import form
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and minderal
I am the very model of a modern global sourceror

In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and minderal
He is the very model of a modern global sourceror

In fact, when I know what is meant by “Dutch Auction” and “Japanese“
When I can tell at sight a credit letter from a guarantee
When such affairs as sorties and surprises I’m more wary at
And when I know precisely what is meant by “commissariat”

When I have learnt what process has been made in modern procurement
When I know more of tactics than a novice in an internment
In short, when I’ve a smattering of arbitration strategy
You’ll say a better Global Sourcerer had never sat a gee

You’ll say a better Global Sourcerer had never sat a gee
You’ll say a better Global Sourcerer had never sat a gee
You’ll say a better Global Sourcerer had never sat a gee

For my global sourcing knowledge, though I’m plucky and adventury
Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Global Sourceror

But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Global Sourceror

To the tune of “I Want It All” by Queen.

A knowledge seeker, on an empty page
Just a website creeper, (in the) internet age
A sharp buyer searching, with no time for buzz
With the sprawling hogwash, can’t see past the fuzz
“It ain’t much I’m asking“, I hear you say
“Gotta find me an answer, and be on my way”

You want it all, you want it all, you want it all, and you want it now!
You want it all, you want it all, you want it all, and you want it now!

Listen all you readers, come gather round
I’m gonna give you a game plan, gonna shake you to the ground
Just give you, what you came to find
Readers do you hear me, no need for a sign
Just read what I’m writing, if you want the truth
Here’s to the future of the sourcing sleuth!

You want it all, you want it all, you want it all, and you want it now!
You want it all, you want it all, you want it all, and you want it now!

the doctor has a one track mind
To share it all in one lifetime
Not a man for compromise and where’s and why’s and living lies
So he’s living it all (yes he’s living it all)
And he’s giving it all (yes he’s giving it all)

So read what we’re writing, if you’re tired of fog
‘Cause we’ve got it all, on the SI blog!

We got it all, we got it all, we got it all, on the SI blog!
We got it all, we got it all, we got it all, on Your SI blog.